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Staff Report

This year's Silverland Middle School Academic Team placed 4th in the 2013 Sagebrush League.

Academic Team Coach and teacher Vicki Gale said her team of 12 students began practicing in November for its first meet on Jan. 17 at Dayton Intermediate School, and practicing and teamwork were key to the team's efforts.

"We practice by going over some questions from past years. The students work in teams of six, and they have 20 seconds to answer the question - one answer per team. If it is a math question, they are ...